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gsthompson on 24 Oct 12CTRL+F "copyright " and you'll see how Reddit led the charge in the internet "blackout" against SOPA.
This is my theory: outcast cultures, formed by those who feel a shared exclusion from the mainstream, must survive an awkward adolescence before integrating fully back into the culture from which they are spawned. And like most teenagers, there is a lot of whining, misfired blame, and crying about “never asking to be born” before those cultures realize that despite their memory of an idyllic second childhood, everyone must eventually grow up.
